Saving jobs in Budget 2021: what and whose jobs to save?
Economists look at situation in various labour segments and the different problems that each one faces
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WHILE the government's call to retrain and upskill has been a familiar refrain in recent years, the push to do so is probably about to intensify at Budget 2021, according to economists.
Describing this as a likely "core element" of the Budget, Sung-Eun Jung, an economist at Oxford Economics, said: "We expect the Singapore government to continue to nudge workers and businesses towards sectors that are likely to come out strong from the Covid pandemic, namely IT, technology, healthcare, financial services."
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